Intel® x86 coreboot/FSP Development Process

The x86 development process for coreboot is broken into the following components:

coreboot SoC development
coreboot mainboard development
FSP 1.1 integration

The development process has two main phases:

Minimal coreboot; This phase is single threaded
Adding coreboot features

Minimal coreboot

The combined steps below describe how to bring up a minimal coreboot for a system-on-a-chip (SoC) and a development board:

The initial coreboot steps are single threaded! The initial minimal FSP development is also single threaded. Progress can speed up by adding more developers after the minimal coreboot/FSP implementation reaches the payload.

Get the necessary tools:
- Linux: Use your package manager to install m4 bison flex and the libcurses development package.
  - Ubuntu or other Linux distribution that use apt, run:
```
sudo apt-get install m4 bison flex libncurses5-dev
```
Build the cross tools for i386:
- Linux:
```
make crossgcc-i386
```
  To use multiple processors for the toolchain build (which takes a long time), use:
```
make crossgcc-i386 CPUS=N
```
  where N is the number of cores to use for the build.
Get something to build:
1. FSP 1.1 required files
2. SoC required files
3. Board required files
Get result to start booting
Early Debug
Implement and debug the bootblock code
Implement and debug the call to TempRamInit
Enable the serial port
1. Power on, enable and configure GPIOs for the debug serial UART
2. Add the serial outupt support to romstage
Enable coreboot/FSP debugging
Determine the Previous Sleep State
Enable DRAM:
1. Implement the SoC MemoryInit Support
2. Implement the board support to read the Memory Timing Data
Implement the .init routine for the chip operations structure which calls FSP SiliconInit
Start ramstage's device tree processing to display the PCI vendor and device IDs
Disable the PCI devices
Implement the memory map

Add coreboot Features

Most of the coreboot development gets done in this phase. Implementation tasks in this phase are easily done in parallel.

Payload and OS Features:
- ACPI Tables

Features
SoC	Where	Testing
Cache-as-RAM	Find FSP binary: cache_as_ram.inc Enable: FSP 1.1 TempRamInit called from cache_as_ram.inc Disable: FSP 1.1 TempRamExit called from after_raminit.S	FindFSP: POST code 0x90 (POST_FSP_TEMP_RAM_INIT) is displayed Enable: POST code 0x2A is displayed Disable: CONFIG_DISPLAY_MTRRS=y, MTRRs displayed after call to TempRamExit
Memory Map	Implement a device driver for the north cluster	coreboot displays the memory map correctly during the BS_WRITE_TABLES state
PCI Device Support	Implement a PCI device driver	The device is detected by coreboot and usable by the payload
Ramstage state machine	Implement the chip and domain operations to start the device tree processing	During the BS_DEV_ENUMERATE state, ramstage now display the device IDs for the PCI devices on the bus.
Board	Where	Testing
Device Tree	List PCI vendor and device IDs by starting the device tree processing Disable PCI devices Enable: Implement a PCI device driver	List: BS_DEV_ENUMERATE state displays PCI vendor and device IDs Disable: BS_DEV_ENUMERATE state shows the devices as disabled Enable: BS_DEV_ENUMERATE state shows the device as on and the device works for the payload
DRAM	Load SPD data: src/soc/mainboard/<Vendor>/<Board>/spd/spd.c UPD Setup: src/soc<Vendor>//<Chip Family>/romstage/romstage.c src/mainboard/<Vendor>/<Board>/romstage.c FSP 1.1 MemoryInit called from src/drivers/intel/fsp1_1/raminit.c	Select the following Kconfig values DISPLAY_HOBS DISPLAY_UPD_DATA Testing successful if: MemoryInit UPD values are correct MemoryInit returns 0 (success) and The the message "ERROR - coreboot's requirements not met by FSP binary!" is not displayed
Serial Port	SoC Support Enable: src/soc/mainboard/<Board>/com_init.c/car_mainboard_pre_console_init	Debug serial output works
Payload	Where	Testing
ACPI Tables	SoC Support	Verified by payload or OS
FSP	Where	Testing
TempRamInit	FSP TempRamInit	FSP binary found: POST code 0x90 (POST_FSP_TEMP_RAM_INIT) is displayed TempRamInit successful: POST code 0x2A is displayed
MemoryInit	SoC support Board support	Select the following Kconfig values DISPLAY_HOBS DISPLAY_UPD_DATA Testing successful if: MemoryInit UPD values are correct MemoryInit returns 0 (success) and The the message "ERROR - coreboot's requirements not met by FSP binary!" is not displayed
TempRamExit	src/drivers/intel/fsp1_1/after_raminit.S	Post code 0x91 (POST_FSP_TEMP_RAM_EXIT) is displayed before calling TempRamExit by after_raminit.S, CONFIG_DISPLAY_MTRRS=y displays the correct memory regions and Post code 0x39 is displayed by after_raminit.S
SiliconInit	Implement the .init routine for the chip operations structure	During BS_DEV_INIT_CHIPS state, SiliconInit gets called and returns 0x00000000
FspNotify	The code which calls FspNotify is located in src/drivers/intel/fsp1_1/fsp_util.c. The fsp_notify_boot_state_callback routine is called three times as specified by the BOOT_STATE_INIT_ENTRY macros below the routine.	The FspNotify routines are called during: BS_DEV_RESOURCES - on exit BS_PAYLOAD_LOAD - on exit BS_OS_RESUME - on entry (S3 resume)

Modified: 20 February 2016